The Savage Sword of Conan Reforged #4 Cover Preview

 

COVER A: ROBERTO DE LA TORRE

 

A mighty city defies the surrounding wastes. The merchant caravans may no longer visit Kuthchemes. Yet the city's broken monuments and crumbling temples bespeak its former greatness. As the wind whistles through buildings and down the debris-filled streets, one man dares enter the abandoned city. Why has Shevatas traveled hundreds of miles to reach Kuthchemes? And what does the thief hope to find in a majestic dome among the ruins?

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THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN REFORGED #4

Format: Comic book

Writer: Roy Thomas

Artist: John Buscema

Publisher: Titan Comics and Heroic Signatures

FC, 48pp, $9.99, On sale: April 22 2026

 

When a princess who enlisted Conan's help to save her kingdom is kidnapped by a mad sorcerer, Conan must track her to a cursed city that has been sealed for thousands of years before the dark gods who reside there can claim her! Reprinting the adaptation of the original Robert E. Howard story from Savage Sword of Conan #2, presented here for the first time in stunning color.

 

 

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COVER B: NEAL ADAMS

 

 

COVER C: ROBERTO DE LA TORRE VIRGIN VARIANT

COVER D: NEAL ADAMS FOIL VARIANT ($19.99)

 

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For what happened last time, see my preview of The Savage Sword of Conan Reforged #3. 

 

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The Savage Sword of Conan Reforged #3 Preview

 

COVER A: ALEX HORLEY

 

These new editions of the Savage Sword series offer the best that the classic magazine had to offer. Written by the powerhouse scribes, and illustrated by artists who have became the rock stars of the comic community, these updates pay homage to the rich heritage of Conan in comics. For this introductory series, Heroic Signatures is coloring the original black-and-white adaptations of Robert E Howard's original stories. Where will our Hyborian hero travel next? And what dark sorcery must he brave?

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THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN REFORGED #3

Format: Comic book

Writer: ROY THOMAS

Artists: NEAL ADAMS, TONY DEZUNIGA

Publisher: Heroic Signatures & Titan Comics

FC, 48pp, $9.99, On sale: 18th Feb 2026

 

In the desert city of Zamboula, Conan is attacked by a group of cannibals who feast on weary travelers. Together with a mysterious dancer named Zabibi, he learns the city’s rulers turn a blind eye to the nightly hunts so long as those who live there aren't on the menu. But when Conan agrees to help Zabibi kill a depraved priest who cursed her lover, he'll find himself caught in a web of illusion and betrayal within the temple walls of the ape-god Hanuman! Reprinting the adaptation of the original Robert E. Howard story from Savage Sword of Conan #14, presented her for the first time in stunning color.

 

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COVER B: EARL NOREM

 

 

 

COVER C: ALEX HORLEY FOIL TRADE VARIANT

 

COVER D: EARL NOREM VIRGIN VARIANT

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Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century #1 Review

 

Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencillers: Ross Andru, Neal Adams & John Romita Sr

Inkers: Dick Giordano, Terry Austin & Bob Wiacek

Colorist: Jerry Serpe

Letterer: Gaspar Saladino

Cover Artists: Carmine Infanto, Ross Andru & Neal Adams

Editors: Carmine Infanto & Stan Lee

Consulting Editors: Roy Thomas, Julius Schwartz, Marv Wolfman & E Nelson Bridwell

Producers: Sol Harrison with Jack Adler

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $19.99/$24.99 Foil

Release Date: January 7, 2026

 

When the temperature falls, the affluent flee Metropolis for warmer climes. But Superman can't leave his adoptive city, because some villain always uses Metropolis as a testing ground for their superweapons. Still, it’s not every day that someone sends a giant robot stomping and crashing through Metropolis.

 

Sadly, the falling mercury in New York City doesn’t discourage criminals from making Spider-Man’s neighborhood less friendly. When Spider-Man notices thieves absconding with priceless artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum, he thwips into the fray. What villains are behind the giant robot in Metropolis and the art theft in Manhattan? And how will they plague Superman and Spider-Man when the two heroes meet? Let’s leap into this 50^th Anniversary Treasury Edition Facsimile issue of Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century #1 and see!

 

Story

In Metropolis, the towering robot seems resistant to Superman’s abilities. Clark Kent may not be the world’s greatest detective. Still, he soon discovers that Lex Luthor is behind the giant robot. Clark's deductive skills prove an equal partner with his superpowers, whether battling the giant robot or navigating office politics. But impressing Morgan Edge and Lois Lane proves more difficult than shrugging off the effects of Kryptonite.

 

In Manhattan, Spider-Man soon discovers who is behind the art theft. But his wonky web-shooters make apprehending Doctor Octopus difficult. Like Clark, Peter Parker struggles in his relationships. But while Lois gets frustrated with Clark, Mary Jane Watson calls him “Tiger” or “Wolf.”

 

Clark Kent and Peter Parker meet in New York at a World News Conference. While the setting places Superman on Spidey’s home turf, Spider-Man nonetheless struggles. Mary Jane wonders if he had nails for breakfast. Peter makes a better impression on Lois Lane. But when a confusing incident occurs, Spider-Man regards Superman not as a potential ally, but as his enemy.

 

Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century #1 includes lots of action as the two heroes battle separately, against each other, and together. Gerry Conway contrasts Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus when the two meet and decide to work together. Like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, Superman and Spider-Man criticize themselves when they realize they’ve messed up. But once they join forces, they work together like one of Lex Luthor's or Doc Ock's well-oiled machines.

 

Art

After a credits page in which the two superheroes face off, each section of Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century #1 opens with a two-page spread or layout. The art also flows across pages when Superman and Spider-Man come to blows. Ross Andru, Neal Adams, John Romita Sr, Dick Giordano, Terry Austin, and Bob Wiacek contribute highly detailed art. Cityscapes contrast modern towers with the architecture of past ages. Even if they don't play a pivotal role in the story, the people in the two heroes' lives make an appearance. The artists showcase the inventiveness of the villains, with high-tech vehicles, robots, and space vehicles.

 

While Superman and Spider-Man wear red and blue costumes, Jerry Serpe adorns Clark Kent and Peter Parker with hints of their secret identities. As Lex Luthor and Doc Ock wear green, it also links the two ladies in the superheroes' lives. But in this brightly colored comic, blue proves the dominant color. It links the villains amid their initial defeat and immediately afterward. Blue also links the superheroes with the pop culture of 1976, as a light-blue and pink Superman evokes the Six Million Dollar Man, and Spider-Man pays homage to a sport growing in popularity.

 

Gaspar Saladino places uppercase black letters in white dialogue balloons and colored narrative boxes. The letters grow bold for emphasis and enlarge for raised voices. Balloons grow spiky in tense situations, while characters’ thoughts float in clouds. Colorful sound effects enhance the action, as Superman and Spider-Man circle the globe through the atmosphere and above it in Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century #1. Thanks to DC Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Clark Kent and Peter Parker are both storytellers. Yet their superhero exploits hamper their journalistic success. In the 50^th Anniversary Treasury Facsimile Edition of Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century #1, Clark and Peter team up to save the world from Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus. Still, their bosses wish their most promising employees could live up to their promise.

 

Rating: 10/10

 

To look inside see my preview of Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle ofthe Century #1.

Superman Vs The Amazing Spider-Man Facsimile Edition Preview

 

Clark Kent is a reporter for the Daily Planet. Peter Parker is a photojournalist for the Daily Bugle. Both yearn to impress the women in their lives. But revealing your secret identity as a superhero is a big step in any relationship. How will Metropolis' Superman and Manhattan's Web Warrior get along with they meet? What evil will they confront? And how will their team-up alter their relationships with the woman in their lives?

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50^th Anniversary Treasury Edition – Superman Vs The Amazing Spider-Man Facsimile Edition

Writer: Gerry Conway

Artists: Ross Andru, Neal Adams & John Romita Sr

Cover Artists: Carmine Infanto, Ross Andru & Neal Adams

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $19.99/$24.99 Foil

Issue Length: 96 Pages

Release Date: January 7, 2026

 

The Man of Tomorrow and the Wisecracking Web-Slinger take on Lex Luthor and Doc Ock!

 

Lex Luthor. Doctor Octopus. Two diabolical geniuses have joined forces to blackmail the world—and exact revenge upon their two most hated foes! With the Man of Steel and the amazing wall-crawler manipulated into battling one another, can the heroes break free and unite in time to turn the tide on their archenemies?

 

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The Savage Sword of Conan #9 Review

 

 

Writer: Patrick Zircher & Fabian Nicieza

Artist: Patrick Zircher & Sean Chen

Pinup Artists: Valerio Giangirodano & Geof Isherwood

Letterers: Richard Starkings & Tyler Smith

Cover Artists: Neal Adams & Alex Horley

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $6.99

Release Date: July 9, 2025

 

Conan and Valeria teamed up to battle a dragon. Despite Xuchotl's age and wealth, they also found treachery and sorcery. Surrounded by death, Conan and Valeria leave the city covered in emerald behind. The dragon killed their horses. How will the two pirates enjoy their hike back to the sea? And what threats did King Kull face thousands of years before the events in Red Nails? Let's grab our swords, leap into The Savage Sword of Conan #9, and see!

 

The Sunless Isle: Story

Relying on each other in combat is one thing. Getting along, especially when tired and hungry, is another. King Olmec tried to rape Valeria. Queen Tascela attempted to steal her youth. As they walk, Valeria's sense of violation grows. She ended up in Xuchotl because she dared to kill a rapist. So, despite their plan to go to the Stygian coast, Valeria argues they should head to Shem instead. Conan dislikes the change of plan. But even in the Hyborian Age, a woman had a right to change her mind.

 

Patrick Zircher’s tale in The Savage Sword of Conan #9 takes Conan and Valeria to Asgalun, a great port and trade center of Shem. Like Conan, Valeria, and Subotai in John Milius’ story, the travelers’ exploits attract the monarch's notice. And as with King Osric of Zamora, King Uziaman wants the wayfarers to free his land of a menace. But this time, instead of traveling to battle an evil sorcerer, they bring one to aid their cause.

 

The Sunless Isle reminds us that friendship doesn’t erase our uniqueness, and embracing our differences makes us stronger. By building the tension between Conan, Valeria, the sorcerer Netahn, and their fellow travelers, Patrick Zircher enhances his action-packed story with naturally arising drama.

 

The Sunless Isle: Art

Conan and Valeria stand amid the slain. The emblem of Xuchotl, and the nails embedded in an ebony pillar, no longer fill its inhabitants with pride. But Conan and Valeria regard each other in triumph. They smile as they walk together through the surrounding forest. When the trees give way to arid plains, the distance between the travelers grows. Then, Patrick Zircher shows Conan and Valeria unleashing their frustrations as they battle side by side, protecting a caravan in The Savage Sword of Conan #9.

 

Highly detailed pencils convey the grandeur of Asgalun, give King Uziaman’s throne room a regal air, and transport the reader on an ocean expedition battling storms and stillness. A mysterious island, an ancient palace adorned with an immense carved likeness of its ruler, and the dangers Conan and Valeria encounter evoke the movies of Ray Harryhausen and Peter Jackson. Yet the appearance of the sorcerer with whom they travel recalls a villain from John Boorman's homage to the legendary King Arthur.

 

The Invisible Assassin: Story

Fabian Nicieza opens a new era of King Kull’s reign. Valusia enjoys peace and prosperity after emerging victorious from war. Kull’s friend Brule rules the Allied Pictish Isles. Kelkor, the commander of the Red Slayer guard, has been exonerated. Tolahn, newly appointed commander of the Black Legion army, has demonstrated patience and wisdom in battle. Kull returned from a recent trade expedition from Pai-P’u-Yen with a scientific breakthrough. The new crystalline armor represents an improvement over other types of armor. But how can you confirm an armor's superiority if you lack a foe to test its battle worthiness?

 

In this second, shorter story in The Savage Sword of Conan #9, Kelkor and Tolahn battle a new threat. Empowered by their superior armor, the leaders face a seemingly invulnerable foe. Fabian Nicieza ponders the value of working together and why we fought for our hard-won goals.

 

The Invisible Assassin: Art

Sean Chen delivers lavish depictions of Valusia’s splendor and the romance of armored knights competing for honor in tournaments. Horse-drawn carts transport harvested crops, while guards surround the rounded towers and domes that rise beyond the city walls. Imprints and direction lines suggest the wind. Stars flare around a man’s face, and geometric designs adorn his barely perceptible form.

 

Lettering

Richard Starkings and Tyler Smith deliver uppercase letters in white dialogue balloons and narrative boxes. Words swell for raised voices, and music notes accompany melodious tones. Councilor Tu's recollections appear as cursive lowercase letters. While larger than the printed words, their elegant counterparts in gray boxes slow the pace. Sound effects evoke beings from Clash Of The Titans, Mysterious Island, and some of Roy Thomas’ earliest stories in Marvel’s Conan The Barbarian. Thanks to Titan Comics and Heroic Signatures for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Desire can sweep us away. In our quest for what we want, we can easily lose sight of others’ rights. Patrick Zircher’s story about Conan and Valeria focuses on the destructive nature of unrestrained sexual desire. Then, Fabian Nicieza delivers a timely meditation comparing the perception of war with the dangers of peace in The Savage Sword of Conan #9.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

To look inside see my preview of The Savage Sword of Conan #9. 

 

Discover Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower Of Shadows

 

Marvel has a long history of telling horror stories. Werewolf By Night is currently on shelves. Varnae, the first Vampire, cast our world into darkness during the recent Bloodhunt crossover event. Check out these earlier, previously uncollected horror tales from some of the iconic creators of Marvel Comics!

 

 Discover Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows

The First in a series of Hardcover Collections Featuring Never-Before Collected Comics by Neal Adams, John Buscema, Howard Chaykin, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, and other Silver Age masters.

Since its founding in 1939 as Timely Comics, Marvel has published some of the most iconic series in American comic book history, including The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and X-Men and built an unparalleled library of characters and stories that have shaped pop culture. For over 45 years, Fantagraphics has published the very best comics and graphic novels that the medium has to offer, including Love & Rockets, Eightball, and My Favorite Things Are Monsters.  Now these two publishing titans are teaming up for Lost Marvels, an ambitious series of hardcover releases featuring never-before collected comics by masters of the Silver Age, including Neal Adams, John Buscema, Howard Chaykin, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, and other masters of the Silver Age.

Fantagraphics will publish three hardcover volumes in the Lost Marvels series this year, all collaboratively produced with Marvel Comics, with more releases to follow in the coming years.

• In April, Fantagraphics will publish Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows, collecting all nine issues of the series. In 1969, with its revolutionary superhero line well established, Marvel took a chance on the kind of supernatural, EC-style anthology series that had been banned since the formation of the Comics Code in the 1950s. Tower of Shadows featured a staggering array of artists and writers, including Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson, to name a few. Freed from the conventions of the superhero adventure, these creators brought their storytelling skills to a more quietly sinister genre, producing atmospheric gems of twisted suspense and sardonic horror, including Roy Thomas and Tom Palmer’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s "Pickman's Model" 

• In July, Fantagraphics will publish Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle. When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume collects some of the most exciting, sought-after work by Chaykin from 1975 to 2008, including retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker’s debut appearance and all the Dominic Fortune stories, including the character’s unexpurgated Max series, published a generation later. Completing the package is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin’s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. As the artist behind Marvel’s comic adaptation of the first Star Wars movie and the creator of iconic, influential series like the sci-fi satire American Flagg! and the adults only vampire saga Black Kiss, Howard Chaykin has earned his reputation as a prolific and essential cartoonist. 

• In November, Fantagraphics will publish Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales. Best known for Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith’s Conan the Barbarian and the first appearance of Gerry Conway and Gray Morrow’s Man-Thing, 1971’s Savage Tales was a stunning comics magazine in the spirit of Creepy and Heavy Metal. This volume will collect all 11 issues of the series featuring work from Stan Lee, John Romita, Dennis O’Neil, Al Williamson, Jim Steranko, John Buscema, and a host of other legendary creators delivering a high-octane combination of fantasy, horror, and action.  

“Marvel published a surprising amount of work that fell outside its superhero purview in the '60s and '70s and '80s, most of it never before reprinted, much of it "lost" except in the fading memories of fans who bought it and read it for the first time back then when it was originally published,” said Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth. “Exceptional craftsmen and artists were often featured — Barry Windsor-Smith, Steranko, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, and others— and one of the goals of this project is to create a carefully curated record of this somewhat more obscure work that so many comics readers have forgotten or are unfamiliar with. Lost Marvels complements our Atlas reprints which features so many of the best craftsmen from the 1950s.”

The Lost Marvels series is dedicated to introducing these vital stories to a new generation of readers and restoring them to their rightful place in comics history. Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows will be available from Fantagraphics on April 29, 2025; Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 will be available on July 8, 2025; and Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales will be published on November 18, 2025. For updates Fans can follow Fantagraphics on X, Instagram, Facebook, Blue Sky, and YouTube.

About Fantagraphics:

For over 45 years, Fantagraphics has published the very best comics and graphic novels that the medium has to offer. Our mission is to celebrate great cartooning in all of its incarnations, from the form’s early luminaries to contemporary artists currently forging the future of visual storytelling. Not content to rest on our laurels and extensive roster of talented artists, we constantly seek out fresh voices from across the globe. Thus, we honor the rich history of comics while providing a platform for bold new stories, styles, and perspectives that push the boundaries of the medium. Fantagraphics remains peerless in our commitment to be the publisher of the world's greatest cartoonists.

 

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